Day Three atBritish Summer Time Hyde Park was very emotional. The weatherwas super hot and the musicevenhotter. Blame the heat but the great mature audience was emotional andI was not the only one crying at Eric Clapton’s Tears in Heaven dedicated to his son who passed away in a tragic accident when he was only 4. Clapton delivered a timeless performance with…
Lastnight Pink Floyd’sRoger Waters kicked offthe sixthedition of BritishSummer Time Hyde Park festival with astunning sound and vision experience and an emotional version of Another Brick In The Wall with the Choir from Grenfell community. He broughthisrevered ‘Us + Them’ tour toasold-outHyde Park and the moment he entered the…
With Summer holidays beckoning, you need to keep children busy and curious outside of school. Stamp collecting is a great hobby to suggest they take up to fill their time. They will find themselves immersed in the wonderful topics of history, geography, sports, animal and plants, space exploration and so many more. Before you know it, they will become engrossed in snippets of knowledge that each…
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Our latest issue for theSummer/Autumn 2018is finally out!The mums I have interviewed for this issue have done extraordinary things in their lives. Their stories are inspiring and positive. I don’t often interview the same people twice, but I have made an exception for Sophie Kinsella who holds a special place in my readers’ hearts for making us…
Join the 3rd Creative Women’s Network, regular events founded by the renowned bloggers and authors Maggy Woodley of Red Ted Art fame and Vicki Psarias of Honest Mum. Learn how to become camera-ready from expert guests including Ab Fab star Harriet Thorpe and garner insight into the importance and rise of video in social media and how best to maximise your reach and visibility. Connect and…
Being a rebel teenager in Italy in the 80s meant only one thing for me: listening and playing blues songs by Zucchero Fornaciari akaZucchero (which is the Italian for Sugar – his real name is Adelmo Forniciari). At 62 he has sold more than 50 million records worldwide and has become one of the biggest rock stars in Italy and in the international rock & blues scene. 30 years down the…
London Mums have 50 cookery books kindly donated bySacla’called‘La famiglia – the family book of pesto’ to give away.Sacla’have teamed up with chef and mum Rachel Allen to createsome newPesto recipes, especially for those important family moments around the table.
For your chance to win one of these cookery books, write the…
Patrick is the family movie of the Summer especially for Londoners and any fans of London based films. I love it because it shows the heck of the wood where I live, SW london, more specifically Richmond village and Richmond Park, it made me laugh from start to finish with very tongue and check British humour and has the sweetest pug dog as the main character.
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Sarah Francis is a…
Little I knew when I met American author David Levithan at an event in London hosted by Penguin Random House in 2015, to promote his latest book Hold Me Closer,that his novels would become huge bestsellers and popular movies.
From that first meeting, I have become a huge fan of David Levithan, particularly of his 2012 novel Every Day, which is a New York Times bestseller and now a…
I was recently invited to a cookery masterclass that explored Mexican culture through its cuisine and specifically Tamales at Mestizo London restaurant tocelebrate the release of Disney Pixar’s COCO on Blu-ray & DVD. Tamales are steamed, corn-husk-clad masa delights. They areMexican-style comfort food thatcan be eaten for breakfast or as a twilight snack. Coco is one of…